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Making history : visual arts & blackness in Canada / [edited by] Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, Silvia Forni.

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Royal Ontario Museum ; On Point Press, 2023.

704.0396074 M235

Royal Ontario Museum.

Art, Black -- Canada.

Artists, Black -- Canada.

Art museums -- Curatorship -- Social aspects -- Canada.

Canadian essays -- 21st century.

9780774890649 (lib. bdg.)

255 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Julie Crooks is the head of the Department of Arts, Global Africa, and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Dominique Fontaine is a curator and founding director of aposteriori, a non-profit curatorial platform. Silvia Forni is a senior curator, Global Africa, at the Royal Ontario Museum and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Includes bibliographical references.

"'Making History: Visual Arts and Blackness in Canada' is a compilation of essays highlighting the dynamism and complexity of African and diasporic experiences seen through the lens of museological interventions and artistic practices at large. Bringing together 22 essays that range from the theoretical to the personal, this volume reflects on a crucial moment in our social history. The many voices and points of view within present ideas that corroborate the state of cultural emergency in which we are living , where museums are forced to restructure, rethink their organizaions, and rewrite the stories of their collections. (...) This publication is part of an ecosystem that is growing and expanding through a number of recent exhibitions and publications, which all contribute to articulate the complexity of Black Canadian contemporary art production and criticism. (...)" --Introduction. p

Fontaine, Dominique.

Royal Ontario Museum.

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